Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Submarine Delivery Agency Framework Document, published by his Department on 23 April 2018, what the timetable is for the Submarine Delivery Agency to have its own Employee Relations Framework.

The Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) operates under the Defence Equipment and Support Employee Relations Framework and the Ministry of Defence's Collective Agreement. The SDA would negotiate its own framework to support bespoke policies if these were required.